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Development and application prospect of large-scale solid-state hydrogen storage and transportation technology for hydrogen metallurgy

  • WEI Wei ,
  • RAO Wentao
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  • WEI Wei, RAO Wentao

Received date: 2024-05-22

  Revised date: 2024-06-23

  Online published: 2024-08-28

Abstract

Hydrogen metallurgy in the steel industry will be the main scenario for large-scale hydrogen application in the future. Blast furnaces can use hydrogen as a reducing agent to replace the traditional carbon-based reduction process, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In the process of hydrogen metallurgy, establishment of an efficient and reliable hydrogen storage industry chain is the key to success. A brief review on hydrogen metallurgy and worldwide development of hydrogen storage and transportation tech especially via solid-metal hydride is given in this paper. Combined with the demand on hydrogen storage and transportation for hydrogen metallurgy, a scheme for massive H2 usage in iron&steel plant via conceptional "gas-solid-gas phases" separate charge&discharge system by solid-metal hydride is proposed to reach a theoretically economic, safe, longdistance and scale-up industrial application. In the future, production and storage&transportation for massive H2-contained solid material for raw-material handling process in iron&steel or chemical plants will be realized by attainable engineering, which will propel revolutionary change in the upstream alloy industry and green H2-via-renewable industry.

Cite this article

WEI Wei , RAO Wentao . Development and application prospect of large-scale solid-state hydrogen storage and transportation technology for hydrogen metallurgy[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2024 , 42(15) : 40 -48 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2024.05.00459

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